the execution of a Mexican national in Texas in 2008 breached US obligations under international law, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) held.

a Jordanian woman, 31, was sentenced to death by the criminal court for murdering her husband, a judicial official said.

two convicts were executed in the Barisal district central jail in Bangladesh in the early hours of the morning.

two prisoners in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, were executed in the early hours of the morning, prison authorities said the next day.

a court in east China's Fujian Province executed a man for smuggling and trafficking about

a Turkish barber in Saudi Arabia who was sentenced to death by a Jeddah court on blasphemy

a man convicted of killing three children in Jamaica was sentenced to hang, in the first death sentence

a Saudi Arabian minor convicted of murder was beheaded by the sword in the south-western border town of Abha.

His excellency the President of Zambia, Rupiah Bwezani Banda, pardoned and commuted the

a regional conference on penal reform and the UN resolution calling for a moratorium

A man convicted of murdering three people during a night of robberies more than 13 years ago in Fort Worth was put to death in Texas in the nation's first execution of the year. Curtis Moore, 40, was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m., eight minutes after the lethal drugs began flowing.

the Criminal Court in Algiers issued the death sentence against a man bearing the initials K.J, nicknamed